SharePoint Glossary, Terminology and Acronyms. How to customize the Content Query Web Part XSL to aggregate blog posts « The SharePoint Swiss Army Knife. Ever wondered how to have the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) aggregate SharePoint blog posts from the SharePoint Blog site templates? Oh wait, that’s already possible. How about aggregating blog posts, customizing the XSL styling and being able to display the first 200 characters of the post as a preview? Believe it or not, I couldn’t seem to find a single definitive blog post on how to do this so I’ve decided to write one up myself. Step 1 Assuming you already have your Blog sites setup, add a Content Query Web Part to the page in which you’d like to have the posts aggregated onto. Configure the Web Part to your liking. Step 2 Using SharePoint Designer, check-out and open the ItemStyle.xsl Style Sheet from Library/XSL Style Sheets/ Step 3 Follow all the steps in this blog post. The result of my customized XSL Template looks like this: Unfortunately, if you check this in, publish it and look at your CQWP, it won’t display the summary text of the blog post.
Step 4 Step 5. Free SharePoint DataView Tips « The Boiler Room â Mark Kruger (5x Microsoft SharePoint MVP) MOSS Content Types Viewer. Great controls to be aware of when building SharePoint sites - Chris O'Brien. Something I've been meaning to do for a while is discuss some of the controls I've found useful when putting together SharePoint sites. Obviously before building a custom control for a specific behaviour, it's a good idea to check if SharePoint comes with anything that will do the job. It sometimes surprising what you find!
Certainly those from a Content Management Server background will be familiar with the idea of having lots of reusable controls (which used the CMS API) within the team, but in MOSS some of the equivalent controls come for free. The most obvious is the Content by Query web part (though we won't mention that the output HTML isn't accessible [WCAG AA-compliant] without extra work), but some of the smaller controls deserve some attention too. So here's a rundown of some handy items for the toolbox: SPSecurityTrimmedControl This control can be used to selectively display content or controls depending on the current user's SharePoint permissions. EditModePanel ListProperty.